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Media bias in reporting the junior doctors’ latest strike

The way our news media slant their reports on major issues – while claiming to be impartial – is fascinating.

Here’s The Guardian‘s latest report on the junior doctors’ strike planned for Tuesday and Wednesday:

Hospitals are finalising plans to help them cope with 48 hours of unprecedented disruption after a last-ditch attempt by MPs to avoid this week’s all-out strikes by NHS junior doctors failed to break the deadlock between them and the health secretary.

Specialists from other hospital departments will be drafted into A&E units on Tuesday and Wednesday to help with the extra pressures caused by junior doctors’ decision to withdraw cover from emergency care areas for the first time in the NHS’s 68-year history.

Hospitals are asking patients to stay away from A&E during the walkouts, which will be staged from 8am to 5pm each day, unless it is an emergency and are bringing in consultants as cover. A total of 12,711 non-urgent operations and 112,856 outpatient appointments have been cancelled as part of determined efforts to ensure patients’ safety when there are far fewer doctors on duty than usual.

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The Guardian’s view is certainly the best, although even it could be better. It makes it sound as if the hospitals are having to specifically draft in all these consultants for A&E. From the vast majority of comments I have read, from consultants and senior doctors, they are pretty much willingly volunteering their services in support of the juniors.

I’m off to hospital in a few minutes and will ask staff there what they think about Hunt. They will be working as usual all week, being in Wales, but I know people who don’t realise that the NHS here is unaffected!

One person has had a routine operation cancelled and was raging at the Junior Doctors… even though his surgery isn’t cancelled because of them.

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